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語源 1

Borrowed from Italian spinetta.

別の表記

• spinnet

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈspɪn.ɪt/, /spɪˈnɛt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈspɪn.ɪt/
• 韻: -ɛt, -ɪnɪt

名詞

spinet (plural spinets)

1. (music) A short, compact harpsichord or piano.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind‎:

     He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.

派生語

• dumb spinet

参考

• virginal

語源 2

From Latin spīnētum. Doublet of spinney

発音

• IPA: /ˈspɪn.ɪt/
• 韻: -ɪnɪt

名詞

spinet (plural spinets)

1. (obsolete) A spinney.
   • 1603, Ben Jonson, The Entertainment at Althorp:

     The invention was to have a Satyr lodged in a little spinet, by which her majesty and the prince were to come

参照

アナグラム

• T-spine, in step, instep, nepits, pinest, septin, step in, step-in